Today is a good day to be the proud owner of a T-Mobile Nexus 7 2013. Lollipop 5.1.1 is here with bug fixes and security enhancements in tow. The OTA actually started to show up on some devices yesterday, but your device may not have been part of the first wave of tablets receiving the update availability notification. If you haven't been invited to update yet and can't bear to wait, then you can head over now to the system tab in settings to manually initiate the software download.

Before you attempt an update, there are a couple of requirements you should know about. Your tablet must have 50% or higher battery life, be connected to the internet (you would think that would be pretty obvious), and have 18.1 MB of memory available. If you have any issues with your update, be sure to contact T-Mobile customer care.

Did you already download the update? Is your Nexus 7 2013 running better (or worse) than before? Sound off in the comments below and let us know.

Comments

Mike Rios

Jeff, what if I'm the proud owner of a VERIZON Nexus 7 2013 Running on T-Mobile's network?... I've been stuck on Android 4.4.2 for a while here still waiting for Lollipop on my Nexus 7, while my Nexus 5 on T-Mobile has gotten all of the most recent updates...

roberto.elena

Why would you feel proud about owning a Nexus device that has the name of a carrier in front of it? Makes no sense to me.

Abhilash Bingi

My friend has a Verizon Nexus 7 too, and he's still stuck on 4.4. I thought he somehow missed out and I wanted to update it for him. Glad I didn't go ahead and flash a regular 5.1 LTE image! What if it broke verizon connectivity?

tehboogieman

AFAIK there is no 5.1 for the 2013 N7 LTE, but updating to 5.0.2 didn't give me any issues with VZW

Abhilash Bingi

What do you mean there's no 5.1 for '13 N7 LTE? You're commenting on the article that says 5.1.1 OTA is available for it!

OR did you get your OTA file from Verizon instead of Google?

tehboogieman

You can manually update once the OTA is available. Mine has been on 5.0.2 since it was released.

Google can delay the OTA based on your SIM, IMEI or serial number so if your device is associated with big red in any way, it can take a long time to get the update.

Gray Bison

Mike,

Did Jeff Beck ever reply to you? I am in the same boat with a Nexus 7 (2013) LTE running the OTA for 5.0.2 since Verizon released it last spring. Now, nothing but the chirping of crickets for months...

It is now mid-August 2015, and Verizon has still not released an Android 5.1.X OTA update for their version of the Nexus 7 (2013) LTE tablet. Has this hardware been orphaned by Verizon and Google, due to liabilities incurred by providing OTA updates? Or just foot dragging?

Matt McNair

Once the OTA link is captured you will be able to side load this on any Nexus 7 LTE. This is just the announcement that T-mobile likes to put out for new releases not a T-mobile specific build. I imagine we'll see this same build rolling out to all models today as well.

My nexus updated. To lollipop and I wish to go back. The back button used to be conveniently under my right thumb it is now at the other side. Something which I do not like and I especially do not want that on my mobile